# ausculto
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [əwsˈkul.tu]
* IPA: (Balearic) [əwsˈkul.to]
* IPA: (Valencia) [awsˈkul.to]

### Verb

ausculto
* first-person singular present indicative of auscultar

## Italian
### Verb

ausculto
* first-person singular present indicative of auscultare

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* ascultō

### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *auskoltā, from aus-, the original stem of auris (“ear”), + Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew- (“to hear”). Other theories take the second component to be Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to incline”) (which itself has been connected with *ḱlew-).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /au̯sˈkul.toː/, [äu̯s̠ˈkʊɫ̪t̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /au̯sˈkul.to/, [äu̯sˈkul̪t̪o]

### Verb

auscultō (present infinitive auscultāre, perfect active auscultāvī, supine auscultātum); first conjugation
* To listen; hear.
* To believe (what one has heard).
* To obey; heed.

#### Related terms

* auscultātiō
* auscultātor

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: auscultar
* → English: auscultate, auscult
* → Esperanto: aŭskulti
* → Franco-Provençal: ôscultar
* → French: ausculter
* → Italian: auscultare
* → Portuguese: auscultar
* → Romanian: ausculta
* → Spanish: auscultar
Reflexes of the variant ascultāre (in many cases remodelled to *excultāre):
* Balkan Romance:
** Aromanian: ascultu
** Romanian: asculta
* Italo-Romance:
** Italian: ascoltare
*** → Ido: askoltar
*** → Interlingua: ascoltar
** Sicilian: ascutari
* Western Romance of N. Italy:
** Friulian: scoltâ
** Istriot: scoltà
** Ladin: scuter
** Lombard: scoltar, ehcoltar
** Piedmontese: scoté
** Venetan: scoltar
* Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: escoltar
** Franco-Provençal: ahcutar
** Old French: escouter, ascolter, escolter, esculter, eskolter
*** Middle French: escouter
**** French: écouter
*** Norman: êcouter
*** Picard: acouter
*** Walloon: schoûter
*** → Middle English: scouten
**** English: scout
** Occitan: escotar
* Ibero-Romance:
** Aragonese: ascuitar, escuitar, escutiar
*** Ribagorçan: escultar, ascultar
** Asturian: escuchar, escuitar, escueitar, ascuchar, ascuitar
** Old Galician-Portuguese: ascoitar, ascuitar
*** Galician: escoitar, escuitar, escutar, escutiar
*** Portuguese: escutar, escuitar
** Old Spanish: ascuchar
*** Spanish: escuchar
* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: aiscultare, aiscurtare, ascultare

### See also

* audiō

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “auris (> Derivatives > auscultāre)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 63

### Further reading

* “ausculto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “ausculto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* ausculto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

### Anagrams

* oculātus

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /awsˈkuw.tu/ [aʊ̯sˈkuʊ̯.tu]
* (Brazil) IPA: /awsˈkuw.tu/ [aʊ̯sˈkuʊ̯.tu]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /awʃˈkuw.tu/ [aʊ̯ʃˈkuʊ̯.tu]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /awsˈkuw.to/ [aʊ̯sˈkuʊ̯.to]
* (Portugal) IPA: /awʃˈkul.tu/ [awʃˈkuɫ.tu]
* Rhymes: (Portugal) -ultu, (Brazil) -uwtu
* Hyphenation: aus‧cul‧to

### Verb

ausculto
* first-person singular present indicative of auscultar

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ausˈkulto/ [au̯sˈkul̪.t̪o]
* Rhymes: -ulto
* Syllabification: aus‧cul‧to

### Verb

ausculto
* first-person singular present indicative of auscultar